January 10, 2019 71 0 Some Simple Tips on Tithing Many faithful people strive to practice tithing, the voluntary giving back to Christ and His Church one tenth of the income with which we…
January 10, 2019 5830 3 Home Alone: The Hidden Message of the Movie Things hidden in plain sight tend to be the hardest to find. That was exactly the case with me and Home Alone movie….
January 9, 2019 224 0 Christmas Memories from the Catalog of Good Deeds: “The First Liturgy in Adulthood and a Christmas Tree from the Country that Does Not Exist” Dear friends! The Catalog of Good Deeds team starts a new series of personal stories devoted to the Feast of the Nativity. Our brothers and sisters…
January 9, 2019 195 0 Personal Story: the Mystery of Conversion and the Long Way to It I often hear stories from people I’ve met along the way about the path that lead them to Orthodoxy. More often than not‚ these…
January 9, 2019 68 0 Prayer as the Reflection of Your Spiritual Life “Prayer is the test of everything; prayer is also the source of everything; prayer is the driving force of everything; prayer is also the…
January 4, 2019 101 0 Christmas Memories from the Catalog of Good Deeds: “Christmas Parcels from Abroad for Sunday School Students” Dear friends! The Catalog of Good Deeds team starts a new series of personal stories devoted to the Feast of the Nativity. Our brothers…
January 4, 2019 178 0 On the Spiritual Value of Silence and Quiet Question: “In the Old Testament we read that there is ‘a time to keep silence and a time to speak’ (Ecclesiastes 3:7). What is the…
January 4, 2019 1175 0 A Unique Icon: the Expectant Mother of God Nowadays, we often call a woman who is expecting a child gravid, from a Latin word which means heavy. A much more apt…
January 4, 2019 75 0 “Elder Holds Him That Stretched out the Earth Above the Waters”: the Mystery of the Meeting with God The Meeting of our Lord is an amazing and wonderful holiday. It is as remarkable as a genuine meeting of God and man, the…
January 3, 2019 79 0 How Unpracticed Faith Turns to Atheism Unpracticed faith—that is, faith without works—St. James writes, is dead. It has no transformative or sanctifying power; it is intellectual assent that descends into…